WAVES in a Sentence

Learn WAVES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

315 example sentences for WAVES, such as:

1. The storm whipped up powerful waves.
2. The great ship sank below the waves.
3. The waves thundered against the rock.
4. Huge waves were breaking on the shore.
5. Look at that boat dancing on the waves.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAVES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wave
 n.  rough top of the water when the sea is not calm
 v.  move one's hand to and in greeting
waving
 n.  (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
 n.  one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Through it all, the dull far-off thundering persisted, rolling into her ears in waves of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  The smell of sweat, of blood, of unwashed bodies, of excrement rose up in waves of blistering heat until the fetid stench almost nauseated her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  A glare brighter than a dozen suns dazzled their eyes, scorching heat seared their skins and the roaring, cracking and crashing beat upon their ears in painful waves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The world lay only a few miles away, but a thousand miles of tumbling waves might have stretched between Tara and Jonesboro and Fayetteville and Lovejoy, even between Tara and the neighbors' plantations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  Melly was hurting so bad--there were hot pinchers at her and dull knives and recurrent waves of pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
7  Timidity and embarrassment swept over her and waves of color mounted her cheeks as he came up the walk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  Selden rose, and she drew a deep breath, feeling that soon she could yield to the blessed waves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  It was not, alas, a clean rush of waves they had to win through, but a clogging morass of old associations and habits, and for the moment its vapours were in his throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  Sweet winds blew from the sunny lake beside her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
13  Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
14  He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
15  The fire hissed in the waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe made.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
16  Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
17  Even if the road is bumpy, the wheel must go forward; even if the river roaring waves, ships are sailing.
18  The huge waves made a breach in the sea wall.
19  Huge waves were breaking on the shore.
20  Imagine you're lying on a beach, listening to the steady rhythm of waves lapping the shore.
21  Look at that boat dancing on the waves.
22  If a member of the Cabinet started making waves, the prime minister simply got rid of them.
23  The child's murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
24  The disturbances seem to occur in waves.
25  The waves frothed as they crashed onto the beach.
26  The storm whipped up powerful waves.
27  Earthquakes produce two types of seismic waves.
28  Love is like sea with lots of waves,I recall the sailing boat when I am old.
29  The waves thundered against the rock.
30  The great ship sank below the waves.